Unicode Support and Multilingual Office Documents

Sharing documents in a multilingual environment can be challenging when the languages involved span multiple Microsoft Windows® code pages. However, using the Unicode character encoding standard overcomes many of these challenges, and in Microsoft Office 2003 Editions, all applications are capable of using Unicode.

Office 2003 Editions provide the conversion tables necessary to convert code page–based data to Unicode and back again for interaction with previous applications. Because Office 2003 Editions provide fonts to support many languages, users can create multilingual documents with text from multiple scripts.